Candle-shade support.



W. R. NOE, JR. CANDLE SHADE SUPPORT. APPLICATION FILED 001210, 1907.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM R. NOE, O'F

WILLIAM R. NOE, JR, OF EAST EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY. CANDLE-SHADESUPPORT. No. 902,597. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Nov. 3,1908.

Application filed. October 10, 1907. Serial No. 396,716.

body E surrounding the flame of the candle, It. Non, Jr, and a neck E atthe lower end held within a citizen of the United States, residinginEast the gallery D. The upper end of the body is Orange, in the countyof Essex and State of contracted to form a shoulder F on which is NewJersey, have invented a certain new and supported the shade M, shown asan ornauseful Improvement in Oandle-Shade S l mental paper shade inimitation of flowers ports, of which the following is aspecification.but which may be of any suitable material The invention relates tocandles used for and form adapted to be supported upon the tabledecoration and lighting and more particularly to means for supportingthe ornamental shades for such candles. flammable material of the shadeis prevented The object of he invention is to provide a and the flamesprotected from air currents, support which shall protect the candleflame l while the transparent character 0 the supand lessen the dangerof igniting the shade, l port avoids shadows. The support may be andalso permit light to radiate in all directinted or otherwise ornamentedand thus add tions without shadows. to the decorative effect.

The invention consists in certain novel fea- I claim tures and detailsof construction by which the 1. An improved article of manufacture aboveobjects are attained, to be hereinafter comprising a tubular holder inthe form of a described and pointed out in the claims. candle and havinga contracted upper enr The accompanying drawings form a part with itslower end adapted to be received in of this specification and show anapproved a candlestick, a gallery supported upon said form of theinvention. holder below said contracted end, a trans Figure 1. is a sideelevation of a candle parent shade holder removably supported on holderequipped with the invention and carsaid gallery and having its upper enccon tracted to form a shoulder, and an ornarying a decorative papershade. Fig. 2 1s a corresponding vertical section, partly in elementalshade removably supported upon said vation. ig. 3 is a plan or top viewwith the l shoulder. shade removed. 2. The combination with a tubularholder Similar letters of reference indicate the the lower end of whichis adapted for removsame parts in all the figures. l able engagementwith a socket and the upper A is a tube of metal preferably enameled orend contracted, of a spring actuated follower a candle, in said holder,a candle supported on said follower and projected through saidcontracted otherwise coated in imitatlon of having a contracted upperend i 1 and adaptend, a gallery on said holder, a support of glassmounted in said gallery and surrounded to rece1ve a candle B Within itforced upwardly to the contracted end by a follower C and helical springThe lower end A of 1 ing said candle, and having a contracted up T 0 allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM Contact of the candle-flame with the inthetube is arranged to be received 111 a can- 1 per end forming a shoulder,and an ornadlestick or other suitable socket. All these mental taperedshade removably held on said shoulder.

In testimony above set forth I a'ffiX my signature, ence of twowitnesses.

WM. 13.. NOE, JR.

parts may be understood to be of the usual or any approved construction.

D is an openworl: annular gallery attached to the tube A near the upperend, comprising a circular flange carrying an ornamental vertical flangeor rail, the whole forming an annular socket in which is recelved aremovab e shade-holder of glass having a cylindrical that I claim theinvention in pres- Witnesses L. M. Lnwrs, CHARLES R. SEARLE.

